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Re:Is Wine Fake? by m463 on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:04PM (#33698700)
During covid a friend tried a "smell training" kit from amazon and I bought one too. (pretty fun, with rose, lemon, eucalyptus and clove)

basically, some essential oils of one smell at a time.

Looking at more extensive smell kits, there is a huge jump in price if you get a "master wine aroma kit". They can have many many scents.

It might just be putting names to smells, but I also wonder if you can actually develop or enhance your sense of smell (and therefore the aromatic parts of taste)?

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Re:Is Wine Fake? by VBprogrammer on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:18PM (#33698874)
I've little doubt that when smell was an important part of finding and identifying food people would have better trained senses. Whether a kit from Amazon can enhance your sense of smell, not sure. Certainly not without spending a lot of time with it.
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